The turmoil that has become the defining feature of the technical team at Kaizer Chiefs has left questions being asked about how solutions will be implemented.
Chiefs have technical team changes to make for the fifth consecutive off-season after the appointments of Gavin Hunt, Stuart Baxter, Arthur Zwane and Molefi Ntseki all failed.
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The next coach will also become the 10th coach – on both substantive and interim basis – that has led the Chiefs dressing room since they won a trophy with Steve Komphela, Patrick Mabedi, Giovanni Solinas and Ernst Middendorp all having had their chances.
Through having a new man next season, the elephant in the room is on whether Amakhosi's stance on the structure of that technical team could be complicating the announcement of Cavin Johnson's successor.
As has become the norm in recent times, any head coach moves around with his 'trusted people' in this sensitive coaching space.
Pitso Mosimane is doing it with his crew, just like all top coaches around as was the case when Nasreddine Nabi's proposed move to Naturena failed at the beginning of the season.
Nabi insisted on having Cedric Kaze as assistant, conditioning coach Helmy Gueldich, analyst Khalil Ben Youssef plus the possibility of another staffer of his choice as the conditions of taking over at the Soweto giants.
Chiefs rejected that proposal, with Ntseki then taking over.
With another first team head coach appointment to be made ahead of the 2024/25 season, will Chiefs stick to the same approach?
Will Dillon Sheppard (assistant coach), Aubrey Mathibe (goalkeeper coach), Bhekumuzi Maluleke (fitness coach) and the analysis team all be kept after Zwane was elbowed out when Johnson took over?
Sheppard has worked under Hunt, Baxter, Zwane, Ntseki, and Johnson.
Mathibe is a former player at the club and has been working with the experienced Rainer Dinkelacker.
Will Chiefs buy into the ideology that a new broom sweeps better or will still want to keep their 'eyes' part of the technical team?
The assistant coach, goalkeeper coach, fitness trainer and analytics team are key components of the technical team in the modern game, which all come at an extra cost.
To fix the shambles at the club, there must be a budget for the entire technical team and not just a head coach.
This will come to a budget of minimum R15 million per annum on that technical team of four to five members, with the bulk swallowed by the head coach.
With Chiefs keen on a non-local, it means the packages will be structured against the US dollar or the Euro.
Chiefs have constantly had to reshuffle the support staff for their head coaches throughout the years.
Baxter won the league with Doctor Khumalo as assistant, but Komphela then had John Paintsil as his second-in-command.
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Joshua Smith, Jarred Marsh, Marco Munchoz are amongst the fitness trainers that were at the club before Maluleke.
Dinkelacker, Denis Rudel, and Brian Baloyi have been part of the keeper trainers, while Kenneth Dambe, Mark Davy, Vaughan Coetzee and Yu-sha Said make up some of the names that have been or are still analysts at the club.